The earlier reviews were pretty bad. It's still a mixed bag in terms of reviews, and I'm mixed on it myself.
The buzz overall though has been very bad though - I'm amazed how FOX have handled key things with the series, which I said would translate negatively into press, and I wasn't wrong. I mean, Dollhouse is on the cover of a magazine here and the headline is something like 'Is Dollhouse doomed?', which isn't exactly going to get people watching, and much of the articles elsewhere follow the same format. If they had put some thought into the Friday move and done a press release with Joss supporting it at the time, it would have helped a lot. Instead Joss has come out in retrospect saying 'I would have put it on Friday night, too', but that's too late, the horse has bolted. Broadcasting and Cable's question to Peter the other day was hilarious: "Is Dollhouse really as bad as people say?". That's PR gone wrong.
Either way, I think most of the episodes will air, if not all of them.
Also, if I hadn't known Joss had written the first episode, I would have bet a lot of money on Tim writing it, or at least coming up with the plot.